Dear All
You may be interested in this special issue of the journal Constructivist
Foundations which has just been published, edited by myself and Michael
Hohl (Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany).
The issue explores alternative approaches to the format of academic
conferences and how this relates to the content discussed in them.
While these issues are relavent across disciplinary boundaries, the main
areas of focus are design and cybernetcs/systems, both of which are fields
which are in self-reflexive relation to their conferences: the organisation
of a design conference is something we design (John Christopher Jones
understood it as part of what he called "context design"); the activities
of a conference are one example of the sorts of process that are studied in
cybernetics and systems science.
There are articles by Abigail Durrant, John Vines, Jayne Wallace & Joyce
Yee based on the "Research Through Design" conferences held recently in the
UK; and by Johan Verbeke based on the Sensuous Knowledge conferences
amongst others. In the introduction, Michael and I reflect on Ranulph
Glanville's interest in conference design, an aspect of his work that
bridges between his two main areas of interest in design and cybernetics.
These issues raised also reflect back on the epistemological issues with
which the journal is concerned, and suggest connections between a
constructivist approach to epistemology in terms of knowing rather than
knowledge, and applied fields such as knowledge management.
The journal is open access and free for both authors and readers.
Best wishes
Ben
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Ben Sweeting
MA(Cantab) DipArch MArch PhD ASC
Course Leader, BA Architecture
University of Brighton
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A new issue of the* AHCI* journal *Constructivist Foundations* has been
published. All target articles, open peer commentaries and book reviews can
be accessed for free at http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1
(see also the Table of Contents below).
ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Constructivist Foundations is an international peer-reviewed academic
e-journal publishing original scholarly work in all areas of constructivist
approaches, such as: radical constructivism, theory of autopoietic systems,
second-order cybernetics, enactivism, first-person research, consciousness
studies, biology of cognition, neurophenomenology, and non-dualism.
The journal is listed in Thomson Reuters's Science Citation Index (AHCI
Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities),
European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), Philosophy, The
Philosopher's Index, PhilPapers, Google Scholar, EBSCO's Education Research
Complete, and Scopus. Currently, it has more than 9,000 subscribers.
Constructivist Foundations offers free access for readers and does not ask
author processing charges. Further details can be found on
http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/
Constructivist Foundations 11(1)
Special Issue "Composing Conferences"
Edited by Michael Hohl & Ben Sweeting
Editorial
Ben Sweeting & Michael Hohl
Exploring Alternatives to the Traditional Conference Format: Introduction
to the Special Issue on Composing Conferences
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/001.editorial>
Target Article
Abigail C. Durrant, John Vines, Jayne Wallace & Joyce Yee
Developing a Dialogical Platform for Disseminating Research through Design
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/008.durrant>
Open Peer Commentaries
Carl DiSalvo
Disseminating Research through Design - Challenges and Opportunities Learned
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/022.disalvo>
Liz Edwards
Nurturing an Environment for Practice-Led Research: Reflections on RTD2015
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/023.edwards>
Jane Norris
Matching Methodology to Conference Content: The Assemblage Network
Potential for Research Through Design Conferences
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/025.norris>
Nithikul Nimkulrat
Research through Design as a Discursive Dissemination Platform
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/026.nimkulrat>
Jonas Löwgren
The RTD Community and the Big Picture
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/028.löwgren>
Peter Lloyd
The Making of a Conference
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/030.lloyd>
Rosan Chow
Platform and Habit of Inquiry
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/031.chow>
Wolfgang Jonas
Research Through Design Is More than Just a New Form of Disseminating
Design Outcomes
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/032.jonas>
Amy Twigger Holroyd
Striking a Balance: Openness in Research Through Design
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/036.holroyd>
Authors’ Response
Abigail C. Durrant, John Vines, Jayne Wallace & Joyce Yee
Balancing Openness and Structure in Conference Design to Support
a Burgeoning Research Community
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/037.durrant>
Target Article
Gordon Dyer, Jed Jones, Gordon Rowland & Silvia Zweifel
The Banathy Conversation Methodology
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/042.dyer>
Open Peer Commentaries
Kathia Castro Laszlo
Reflecting on the Impact of the Banathy Conversation Methodology in My
Professional Practice
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/051.laszlo>
Gary S. Metcalf
A Constructivist Perspective on Banathy’s Conversation Methodology
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/053.metcalf>
Alexander Laszlo
Conversations Communities in Context: A Retrospective Prospective
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/054.laszlo>
Ken Bausch
A Comparison of Two Closely Related Methodologies
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/056.bausch>
Laurence D. Richards
Conversation vs. Communication: A Suggestion for “the Banathy Conversation
Methodology”
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/058.richards>
Authors’ Response
Gordon Dyer, Jed Jones, Gordon Rowland & Silvia Zweifel
Conversation Never Ends
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/060.dyer>
Target Article
Laurence D. Richards
Designing Academic Conferences in the Light of Second-Order Cybernetics
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/065.richards>
Open Peer Commentaries
Christiane M. Herr
Can Conversations be Designed?
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/074.herr>
Tom Scholte
Embed and Unzip: Entailment Structures as a Knowledge Building Tool for
Academic Conferences
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/076.scholte>
Paul C. Schroeder
Nurturing Conversation through Innovative Conference Design
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/077.schroeder>
Judith Lombardi
Cybernetics, Conversation and Consensus: Designing Academic Conferences
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/079.lombardi>
Andrew O. Brightman
Avoiding Violence by Design
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/082.brightman>
Michael Hohl
Desires, Constraints and Designing Second-Order Cybernetic Conferences
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/084.hohl>
David Griffiths & Philip Baron
The Tensions between Second-Order Cybernetics and Traditional Academic
Conferences
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/086.griffiths>
Robert J. Martin
Connections of Conversation-Based Conferences to the Foundations of Radical
Constructivism
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/088.martin>
Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a)
Proposing a Fictional Conference Day Using Larry Richards’s Cybernetic
Design Principles
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/091.kanary>
Author’s Response
Laurence D. Richards
Design for Participation: Culture, Structure, Facilitation
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/093.richards>
Target Article
Johan Verbeke
Designing Academic Conferences as a Learning Environment: How to Stimulate
Active Learning at Academic Conferences?
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/098.verbeke>
Open Peer Commentaries
Christoph Brunner
What a Conference Can Do
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/105.brunner>
Eric Guibert
Timeframework, Diversity and Etiquette: Fostering Collective Knowledge
Creation in Conferences through Design and Practice
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/108.guibert>
Søren Kjørup
Afterthoughts on the Sensuous Knowledge Conferences
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/110.kjørup>
Mira Sanders
The Design Conference Model and Its Learning Environment: A Construction
Site <http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/112.sanders>
Author’s Response
Johan Verbeke
Four Layers for Designing Conferences as Learning Environments: Space,
Time, Communities of Practice and Trust
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/115.verbeke>
Regular Section
Target Article
Andreas Quale
Religion: A Radical-Constructivist Perspective
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/119.quale>
Open Peer Commentaries
Urban Kordeš
The Interesting Similarity of Religious and Everyday Epistemic Positions
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/126.kordeš>
Thomas McCloughlin
The Cognition of Religion: Radical-Constructivist Considerations
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/128.mccloughlin>
Leslie P. Steffe
Can a Radical Constructivist Be Religious? - Yes!
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/131.steffe>
Sebastjan Vörös
Dubious Dichotomies and Mysterious Mysticisms
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/135.vörös>
Hugh Gash
Issues in Relation to Learning About Religion
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/137.gash>
Jean Paul Van Bendegem
Why I Am a Constructivist Atheist (in a Meaningful Way)
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/138.vanbendegem>
Author’s Response
Andreas Quale
Is God a Radical Constructivist?
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/140.quale>
Target Article
Konrad Werner
Towards a PL-Metaphysics of Perception: In Search of the Metaphysical Roots
of Constructivism
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/148.werner>
Open Peer Commentaries
Peter Gaitsch
Do We Need a Metaphysics of Perception?
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/158.gaitsch>
Matt Bower
Do We Need a Metaphysics for Perception? Some Enactive, Phenomenological
Reservations <http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/159.bower>
Adriana Schetz
A Mess of the Grounding Role of Metaphysics
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/162.schetz>
Spyridon A. Koutroufinis
Towards a Metaphysics for Constructivist Thought
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/163.koutroufinis>
Istvan Danka
Reconciling Constructivism with Realism: How Far Non-dualism Should Be
Followed <http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/165.danka>
Paul Downes
Opening Spatial Preunderstandings at the Roots of Constructivism
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/167.downes>
Diana Gasparyan
Transcendentalism Guarding Constructivism: The PL-Metaphysics of Hegel and
Naturalists
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/169.gasparyan>
Author’s Response
Konrad Werner
Subjects, Worlds and (PL-) Metaphysics - What Is It All about?
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/172.werner>
Book reviews
Jacek Olender
Science As Child’s Play
<http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/182.olender>
Hannah Richter
Complexity, Power, Intuition: Unearthing the Affective Ground of Economic
Structures <http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/186.richter>
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